A MILLION MILES
USA, 2001, 16mm, 85 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2001)
Dir: Bryan Sipe • Writers: Bryan Sipe, Ben Carney • Prod: Bryan Sipe, Ben Carney, Mark Bailin, Debra J. Olchick
Cast: Ben Carney, Ray Jarrell, Gina Merchan, Duane Langley

Set in the winter of a summer amusement-town, A MILLION MILES is a story about best friends who have outgrown the familiar streets and faces of their Jersey Shore home. For this group of brazen youths, life has become predictable, but leaving the only lives they've ever known presents more questions than answers. They're afraid of change, afraid of growing up, and most of all, afraid of who they will become when they are no longer together. When our story's soft spoken leader, Jimmy Gordon, is accepted to a college far from his hometown, he must decide between a life he's dared to dream about and the safety of the life and friends he's always known.

ALPHONSO BOW
USA, 2009, HD, 72 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2009)
Dir: Lije Sarki • Writer: M Sarki • PROD: Scott Mellini • CO-PROD: Betsy Fels,
Exec. Prods: C. Devin McKinney, Carmen Nicole
Cast: Jeffrey Pierce, Michael Dempsey, Kate Rodger, Kasey Buckley

Imagine two unique fellows from different backgrounds; one an ex male-exotic-dancer trained in the martial arts who also lays countless brick and loose women; the other an older brick salesman who provides him with jobs and materials, as well as his daily obsessive debate regarding, among other things, the existence of life on other planets. Picture the two of them eating lunch together in a family restaurant, speaking entirely too loud on the topics of religion, sex, early child behavior, Samuel Beckett, Hitler, and a severely injured dog, and you get the idea that these two characters will surely tease one's palate. Much like the story of the old bull and the young bull, the film ALPHONSO BOW will satisfy us all. A surprisingly fun ride that never stops delivering on its every promise.

AFTER THE FLOOD
USA, 2001, 35mm, 81 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2001)
Writer/Dir: Robert Saitzyk, Prods: Aaron Rice, Robert Saitzyk, Joseph Chase
Cast: Shawn Andrews, Ola Metwally, Joseph Chase, Tony O’Brien

A young man's desperate search for spiritual redemption on the streets. A provocative character study, the film spirals through a gritty urban neo-realism, then into haunting, surreal images that evoke the loss of innocence and a fractured, vulnerable sexuality. AFTER THE FLOOD paints an impressionistic portrait of a soul hopelessly struggling to escape the prison of the modern city.

AFTERTHOUGHT
USA, 2006, HDCAM, 86 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2007)
Dir: Douglas Elford-Argent • Writer: Wendy Elford-Argent • Prod: Ted Willett
Cast: Gwendolyn Garver, Kristian Capalik, James Symington, Bobbi Jean Basche

Seven years after Christy Dawson loses her father, she begins having dreams about him. What she doesn't know is that she is beginning her future as a Dreamer. When her dreams begin to become reality, Christy seeks the help of Kyle Walker, but soon loses her trust for him when he can't explain why he was found at two crime scenes. The Police arrest Kyle and hold him at the jail. Forced to learn more alone, she soon discovers the truth and goes back to the only person who will listen to her.

ALICE'S MISADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
USA, 2004, HD, 92 min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2005)
Writer/Dir: Robert Rugan • Prods: Michael Benson, Jonathan Barnette
Cast: Will Keenan, Maggie Henry, Kyle Holman, Chris Garrison

A contemporary remake of Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Alice finds herself bored and fed up with the world around her. When she is offered the chance to know all the answers to all her life's questions, she takes it, and falls deep into the demented world of Wonderland.

ALWAYS WILL
USA, 2006, DIGITAL, 86 min. (DWF 2006)
Writer/Dir: Michael Sammaciccia • Prods: Michael Sammaciccia, Matthew Petrilla, Chip Schofield
Cast: Andrew Baglini, John Schmidt, Mark Schroeder, Noelle Meixell, Andrew Sammaciccia, Jody Seymour, Bart Mallard

After uncovering an old relic from his elementary school, Will, a high school senior, discovers he can change his past mistakes. An architect of his life, Will creates the kind of popularity every teenager yearns for. But when his unhappy mom shares regrets of her own, Will is faced with his toughest decision yet.

THE AMAZING OMELETTE
USA, 2004, 16mm, 70min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2005)
Writer/Dir: Mark Januzelli • Prods: Mark Januzelli, David Januzelli, Lorainne Fox
Cast: Ray Hale, Seth Gillum, Jessica Smith, Averell Eshaghian

Thirty-two year old Jim Wentzhof is jolted from his complaisant lifestyle at home with Mom by a phone call from an estranged childhood friend.  He is presented with an intriguing offer that he cannot refuse.  Looking for a break in his comfortable routine, he packs all that he thinks he'll need for his one shot at a Hollywood payoff.  Jim soon discovers a world far more complex and fragmented than the one he left behind as he spirals through the confusion of Hollywood's creative underground.

AMERICA 101
USA, 2005, HD, 87 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2005 - Audience Award Winner 2005)
Dir: Mark A. Russell • Writers: Mark A. Russell, Michael Wasserman • Prod: Michael Wasserman • Cast: Miguel Castro, Richard Azurdia, Christine Carlo, Gerald Brodin, Jordi Caballero, Louie Olivos Jr., Trinidad Nizelli

AMERICAN YEARBOOK
USA, 2004, Digital, 97 min. (US Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir: Brian Ging • Prods: Jason Brown, Brian Ging
Cast: Nick Tagas, Jon Carlo Alvarez, Giovannie Pico, Chris Peter, Ryon Nixon, Daniel Timko

The true-to-life story of a high school dreamer, Will, whose hope of being a successful photographer is ripped from his grasp, as he is relentlessly targeted by vicious pack of local bullies. Will meets a dark new punk friend Chance, who convinces Will they should get a gun and exact revenge. Chance plans on 'pulling a Columbine'. Will’s romantic interest Amanda pleads with Will not to get revenge and talk Chance down, but can even Will stop what Chance has started? And is Will’s revenge too strong for him to just walk away?

THE AMERICANS ARE COMING! THE AMERICANS ARE COMING!
USA, 2003, Digital, 83 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir: Sheldon Collins, Story By: Sheldon Collins, Justin Hogan, Prods:Justin Hogan, Cameron McIntyre, Damon White
Cast: Sheldon Collins, Zach Samios, Jon Artigo, Kevin Painchaud, Ryan Holmes

From the USA to Spain, France and Italy, AMERICANS is a hilarious look at the power of Hollywood, told through the eyes of some truly unique individuals. A 2003 international road trip film, AMERICANS tells the story of five broke American guys who attempt to con their way across Europe on a first class vacation by pretending to shoot a doocumentary film. A blending of real and re-staged footage, AMERICANS will take you on a journey never before traveled and leave you asking - "Is this for real?"

AN AMERICAN REUNION
USA, 2003, 35mm, 93 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir: Jim Fitzpatrick, Prods:Steven K. Bath, Randy Turrow, Jim Fitzpatrick
Cast: Jim Fitzpatrick, Corby Timbrook, Jodi Knotts, John Bradley, Rochelle Swanson, Philip Brown, Bob Jesser, Racheal MacKenna

Based on a true story, "An American Reunion," is a poignant Romantic-Dramedy about an estranged group of necessitous friends that have all returned home for their clandestined high school reunion to face the explosive reality of how their friendships and promises to one another have completely altered and have all but been painfully buried, only to realize that it will take their combined efforts and reuniting to save one of their own's lives.

AMONG BROTHERS
USA, 2005, DIGITAL, 89 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2005)
Dir/Prod: John Schwert • Writer: Adaptation by John Schwert; Original story by Thomas A. Morgan • Cast: Matt Mercer, Corey Cicci, Lauren Schneider, Daniel J Watts, Lindsay Ayliffe

This dramatic thriller is based on the actual events surrounding a cold case in Florence, SC; the names have been changed for protection. On November 9th, 1994, Jennifer Matthews, a senior at Bergan State University, was found dead in her burned down apartment. The police informed her family that it appeared to be an accident. Two days later, the autopsy revealed that it was no accident. There was no presence of smoke in Jennifer's lungs, she died before the fire, someone had killed her and tried to cover it up.

ANGEL CITY
USA, 2006, Digital, 88 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2006)
Dir/Prod: Niels Cederfeld • Writer: Sally Hughes
Cast: Isabella DenHartigh, Niels Cederfeld, Kimberley Bosso, Allen Burns, Craig Aaland, Scott Ferguson,
Mary MacDonald, Marty Panzer, Sally Hughes, Michael Cunningham

A Hollywood writer’s dream assignment becomes a nightmare after she discovers she’s starring in the film she’s writing for her lover. A low-budget dramedy with a film within a film.

ARIZONA SEASIDE
USA, 2007, HD, 98 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2007)
Writer/Dir: j. Pil Pilegaard • Prod: Alla Shemer, j. Pil Pilegaard
Cast: Roy Werner, Alexandra Hunter, Kim Delgado, Jacob Witkin, Hugh Mason, R. Emery Bright,
Richard Thorne, Sanjay

Elena, a young Kazakhstan factory worker with Nashville dreams, is duped by a wannabe pimp and oddball gangster. Through a comedy of errors, she crosses path with a sweet con man moonlighting as a Robin Hood for stray animals. Both on the run from gangsters they end up at Arizona Seaside, a rundown motel. Their short but very eventful stay has some unexpected consequences.

ATOM NINE ADVENTURES
USA, 2007, DV, 80 min. (DWF 2008)
Writer/Dir/Prod: Christopher Farley
Cast: Colin Armstrong, Jennifer Ferguson, Paul Meade, Desiree Hall, Christopher Farley

In a remote forest, Astrophysicist Dr. Adam Gaines and his homemade robotic assistant Jimbot recover a 2.5 billion year old meteorite containing an alien organism that may hold the secrets to the universe. What they don’t realize is that a mysterious terrorist named Gremlo Flugg and his band of “Fluggmen” also seek the ancient contents of the meteorite so they can carry out their sinister plans to take over planet earth.

ATTACK OF THE BAT MONSTERS
USA, 2000, 16mm, 92 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2000 - GRAND JURY AWARD)
Writer/Dir: Kelly Greene, Producers: Mark Spacek, Kelly Greene
Cast: Michael Dalmon, Fred Ballard, Casie Waller, Ryan Wickerham, Douglas Taylor

A comedy that takes an affectionate look at the men and women responsible for those lovable low-budget science-fiction movies that graced the drive-ins in the 1950’s with their rubber-suited monsters and ubiquitous themes of radioactivity and atomic mutations. Set in 1959, the film concerns an independent movie company’s attempt to shoot a complete monster movie from scratch in the three days they have left after wrapping early on an exploitation creature feature.

THE AUTEUR THEORY
USA, 1999, 35mm, 80 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2000)
Writer/Dir: Evan Oppenheimer, Producer: Holly Sorensen
Cast: Alan Cox, Natasha Lyonne, Angeline Ball, Rachel True, Armin Shimerman, Ian McNeice, Jeremy Sisto, Garrett Wang, Sean Gunn, Dana Lee, Daniel Cantor, Jit Sarkar, Michael Benyaer, Eric Michael Cole, J.P. Manoux, Diane Salinger, Dominic Keating

At a relentlessly self-indulgent student film festival, the directors of the (mostly terrible) short films are being killed off one by one -- and a budding British documentary filmmaker, George Sand, decides to investigate. The surviving filmmakers are the main suspects in the ongoing murders, and so George begins to review their films, searching for bloody footprints amidst the celluloid. Somewhere in these films (including an Indian “Pulp Fiction”, the JFK assassination re-enacted by eight year-olds, and a Hasidic Spike Lee movie) is the bizarre truth.

AUTODOC
USA, 2009, HD, 99 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2009)
Dir: Jonathan Whittle-Utter • Writer: Brian Elerding • Prod: Jonathan Whittle-Utter, Brian Elerding, Patrick Blewett • Cast: Jimmy Lyons, Samantha Sloyan, Brian Elerding,
Rachel Jackson, Dan Bridges, Dominik Krzanowski, Elizabeth Guilliams, Nicole Vennera

Loosely based on the Dada revolution of 1916, a group of artists in the California desert set out to €lm and document their lives and art. When fame strikes unexpectedly, these passionate and pretentious young rebels must struggle to maintain their integrity amidst an explosion of publicity, sex, drugs, and six digital cameras that never stop rolling...

Hugo and Emmy, a young couple in love, lead a provocative art collective in arid San Bernardino. When rising Hollywood star Tristan joins their group, the lines between personal and commercial - and between life and art - become alarmingly blurred.

BABYSHAKES & THE RETURN OF MACDADDY
USA, 1998, 35mm, 98 min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 1998)
Writer/Dir: Gregg Paine, Producers: Justin Nathanson & Gregg Paine
Cast: Christopher Mako, Caroline Farrill, Morton Hall Millen, Aviva Melissa, Dwight Wigfall, Lissa Sexton, Craig Strong

BACHELORMAN
USA, 2003, HD24, 90 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2003 - AUDIENCE AWARD)
Dir: John Putch, Writers: Rodney Lee Conover, Jeff Hause, David Hines, Prods: Rodney Lee Conover, Helen Woo, Karen Bailey
Cast: David DeLuise, Missy Pyle

THE BALLAD OF PONYBOY
USA, 2004, Digital, 65 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir: Jeff McCarty • Prods: Jeff McCarty, William Miller
Cast: Foster Timms, Andrea Fellers, Juliette Avila, Richard Ben Azzouz

A struggling singer-songwriter is forced by his girlfriend to grab his camera and get a job walking around East L.A. as a door-to-door salesman of "pony pictures". Along the way, he ends up getting tossed through trash cans, playing music and getting high with the locals, and romancing a sexy senorita as his world comes crashing down around him in this lyrical, Zenlike pipe dream of a movie.

BEING MICHAEL MADSEN
USA, 2007, HD, 88 min. (DWF 2009)
Dir: Michael Mongillo • Writers: James Charbonneau, Michael Mongillo • Prods: Daniel A. Sherkow, Michael Mongillo • Cast: Michael Madsen, Jason Alan Smith, Doug Tompos, Kathy Searl, Davis Mikaels,
Virginia Madsen, Lacey Chabert, Daryl Hannah, Harry Dean Stanton, David Carradine, Paige Davis

Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.

BEVERLY KILLS
USA, 2005, DIGITAL, 80 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2005)
Writer/Dir: Damion Dietz • Prods: Damion Dietz Elyse Rogers Stephanie Orff
Cast: Rick Sparks

Beverly Jackson is a sanity-challenged cross-dresser with dreams - dreams of starring in the Pride Playhouse's production of 'Balls Out', (a tacky gay Hollywood revue featuring a politically-charged, same-sex marriage ballet and gratuitous full-frontal nudity). Ridiculed, scorned and spurned at her audition, Beverly quickly assembles a bizarre cult of Tinseltown rejects and wannabes in her quest to get noticed and get even! Enter Shane, an overly guarded boy who lives and works out of the playhouse, hiring celebrity impersonators for the "Walk of Fame". When Shane's boyfriend dumps him, he is welcomed into the supporting arms of Ray. But just as the romance between the two ignites, they are inadvertently thrust into the center of Beverly's insane plot - a plot that has spiraled out of control and escalated into the realm of terrorism! Fast, funny, and shockingly sexy, BEVERLY KILLS sparkles with a gorgeous cast of young and talented newcomers, and signals writer/director Damion Dietz as a sharp comedic talent with a wry eye for romance.

BLUE SHARK HASH
USA, 2000, 35mm, 93 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2001)
Writer/Dir: Dale Roy Robinson, Prods: Dale Roy Robinson, Jenifer Wymore
Cast: Rick Gomez, Jenifer Wymore, Jack Gwillim, Maria Cina

BOYS FROM MADRID
USA, 2000, 35mm, 90 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2001)
Dir: Carlo Gustaff, Writers: Kathryn Willis, Theo Pagones, Carlo Gustaff, Prods: Ken Schwenker, Theo Pagones, Carlo Gustaff
Cast: Theo Pagones, Jesse Harper, Chris Jacobs, Elan James, Betsy Monroe, Vance Strickland

Four high school track champions travel back to their hometown of Madrid, New Mexico for their ten-year reunion and into a dark psychological journey they will never forget. Their past begins to unfold when each of the athlete’s dark secrets slowly erupt and they discover that the real reunion begins with the realization that their beloved coach has become their most feared enemy. Through their united front an explosive conclusion liberates their souls forever.

BOYS OF SUMMERVILLE
USA, 2008, HD, 109 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2008)
Writer/Dir: Brooks Benjamin • Prods: Keith McDaniel, Jackie Barnes, Brooks Benjamin
Cast: Casey Payne, Allison Varnes, Wes Murphy, Amy Eakins-Casterline

BROKE SKY
USA, 2007, 35mm, 97 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2007 - GRAND JURY AWARD)
Dir: Thomas L. Callaway • Writers: Scott Phillips, John Howard, Frank Patterson, Brian Muir, Thomas L. Callaway • Prods: Jeff Burr, Karchi Perlmann, Thomas L. Callaway, Dan Golden, Eric Miller
Cast: Will Wallace, Joe Unger, Bruce Glover, Duane Whitaker, Barbara Chisholm, Liz McLennan, Jamielynn Kane, Marco Perella, Brooklin Bailey, Chris Messersmith

BROKE SKY is quintessential southern noir … the story of Bucky and Earl, two county workers breaking their backs to keep the highways clean of roadkill under the scorching Texas sun. When a carcass-removal call turns up something far more disturbing than a flattened armadillo, best friends are torn apart by a decades-old secret that will have them questioning everything they think they know about each other.

BULLDOG
USA, 2002, 16mm, 85 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir: Damon Stout, Prods: Neil Blitstein, Damon Stout
Cast: David Holcomb, Kenny Johnston, Mark Auerbach, Ike Gingrich, Paul Sarnoff, Samantha Carpel

When an out of work Guld War vet (Leo) is offered some quick cash as a bodyguard, he jumps at the chance. His job is to escort a diamond courier from the airport to a large wholesaler. Unfortunately for Leo, the security boss (Sal) that hired him plans to steal the diamonds. Throw in two corrupt detectives and a disgruntled ex-jewler, all looking for the stones, Leo and company have no where to turn. Bad turns to worse when the ‘diamonds’ turn out to be fake. A lot can happen in only three days.

BUTTLEMAN
USA, 2003, 35mm, 98 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir: Francis Stokes, Prod: Shereen Hariri, Cast: John Hawkes, Anita Barone, Stephen Falk, Stephanie Markham, Dan Castellaneta, Karen Black